The time has come to announce my selection for the 2026 HAED SAL on this blog. Should I have done this last month when I announced it on my first Flosstube at the Cozy Oscoey YouTube channel? Yes, absolutely but December was a whirlwind of sickness, travel and trying to make the holidays magical and at the end of it all I realized I did not post anything to the blog for December so here we go. If you have not watched the video, please do! I love talking about my stitching plans! If you have watched it, this should come as no surprise, but I picked The Sun by Edvard Munch who is the painter who completed the famous “The Scream” painting.
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I picked this one because of a few reasons, the number one being that it really struck me when I first saw it. It is so different and clearly painted by a master painter. I wasn’t sure about how it would translate to stitching at first but ultimately decided that it would be beautiful and fun to work on. The color transitions are amazing and so far I have just worked on a little bit of the top left corner but once I get into the rays of the sun it will be cool to see how they blend. Another factor in my decision was that this was not an AI piece of art although I am pretty disappointed looking at the pattern to see that the artist is not mentioned at all as it should be. This piece may be out of copyright but the original artist should be credited nonetheless.
I am stitching mine 1 x 1 on 25 count easy grid because that is what I used for Innocent Dreams and I liked how quickly it went. This piece though has so far been super challenging for some reason. I really have only stitched some of the grey at the top left and I have frogged it once and just noticed a huge mistake half way through my stitches so I may have to frog the bottom half of my stitching. I am not brave enough to all of one color at a time like a lot of other stitchers in the 2026 HAED SAL group but I am working on all of a color in a larger section to keep things moving along.
So far I am about 150 stitches in and am working on my second color. It just looks like some splotches of grey so far but you can clearly see where the first ray of sun will go. I missed a stitch down in the 4th box from the top on the very left and will have to frog most of what is below it. I am tackling it this week and hope to make some significant progress on this piece in January. I am determined to finish this year! No major life changes are planned and now that I have a solid place to stitch again with good lighting it will be much easier to get through it. On a side note, I also want to finish Innocent Dreams this year so that project is not hanging over my head for years. I know that if I don’t get it done this year it will never get done!
Look for more updates on this piece as well as all of my other WIPs both here and on the Cozy Oscoey YouTube channel this year!
Which piece did you decide on?
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Information about The Sun by Edvard Munch painted in 1909
